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6/8/2025 1:02:01 PM
The leader of Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch has threatened both U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in his first video message since taking over the group last year.
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12/4/2024 2:54:46 PM
Over the past dozen years, Syrian militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani has worked to remake his public image and the insurgency he commands, renouncing longtime ties to Al-Qaida and consolidating power before emerging from the shadows.
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8/12/2024 5:11:26 PM
While Russia’s army is bogged down in Ukraine, its mercenaries are faring no better in Africa.
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6/19/2024 5:15:14 PM
Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, a new report said Wednesday, the latest trend in the militants' movements to wealthier West African coastal nations.
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3/25/2024 11:44:50 AM
An attack by al-Qaida in southern Yemen killed at least two troops loyal to a secessionist group, officials said Monday, in the first attack since the extremist group's branch in the Arab country announced the death of its leader earlier this month.
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8/26/2023 11:52:30 AM
Islamic State extremists have almost doubled the territory they control in Mali in less than a year, and their al-Qaida-linked rivals are capitalizing on the deadlock and perceived weakness of armed groups that signed a 2015 peace agreement, United Nations experts said in a new report.
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8/10/2023 3:29:50 PM
A suspected Al-Qaida attack in southern Yemen killed a military commander and three soldiers from the Southern Transitional Council on Thursday, security officials and an eyewitness said.
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7/23/2023 3:09:26 PM
Militants shot and killed four highway policemen Sunday in southeast Iran, state media reported.
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6/5/2023 10:33:53 AM
Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world's fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people, with the number mushrooming by more than 2,000% since 2019, according to government data.
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5/17/2023 10:21:53 AM
Africa’s Sahel region has become a hot spot for violent extremism, but the joint force set up in 2014 to combat groups linked to the Islamic State, al-Qaida and others has failed to stop their inroads, and a senior U.N. official warned Tuesday that without greater international support and regional cooperation the instability will expand toward West African coastal countries.
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5/3/2023 10:41:56 PM
The US-led coalition carried out a drone strike Wednesday in northwestern Syria targeting a senior al-Qaida leader, the US military said.
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4/9/2023 2:00:51 PM
At least 44 people were killed by Islamic extremists in multiple attacks in northern Burkina Faso, the government said Saturday.
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3/1/2023 7:14:44 PM
The United States is increasing its military assistance to Somalia as the country sees success in battling what the U.S. calls “the largest and most deadly al-Qaida network in the world.”
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1/21/2023 2:20:00 PM
Burkina Faso's army has freed 66 women and children who were abducted earlier this month by Islamic extremists while gathering food in the country's northern Sahel region, according to a state television report Friday.
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1/15/2023 12:01:42 PM
Police said Sunday that eight people were killed in a roadside bombing claimed by Al-Shabaab in central Somalia where a major offensive is underway to retake territory from the jihadists.
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1/7/2023 3:50:26 PM
Somalia's government claimed Saturday that the al-Shabab extremist group has for the first time asked to open negotiations, amid a military offensive the government has described as ``total war.''
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11/1/2022 10:44:37 PM
The Treasury Department announced sanctions Tuesday against a weapons trafficking network affiliated with the Islamic State group in Somalia and the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which are accused of carrying out deadly terrorist acts on civilians including car bombings.
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10/31/2022 5:01:40 PM
The death toll from twin car bombings in Somalia's capital has reached 120 and could rise further because some people are still missing, the country's health minister said Monday.
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9/25/2022 9:59:33 AM
The CIA has revealed a model of Ayman al-Zawahri's safe house, used to brief President Joe Biden about the al-Qaida leader's whereabouts before the agency killed him in a drone strike in Afghanistan.
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8/4/2022 3:02:35 PM
The Taliban said Thursday they are investigating what they described as ``claims'' that al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in the Afghan capital.
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